Title: Can't edit database file
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Can't edit database file

 *  [Frantumn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frantumn/)
 * (@frantumn)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-database-file/)
 * This issue sounds similar to this… which was never really resolved.
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-access-2?replies=2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-access-2?replies=2)
 * I migrated my wordpress website from Hostgator to Godaddy. As a result, the directory
   that the webfiles live in has changed and is causing problems with my website.
 * There seem to be directory settings saved in the database that I need to edit.
   When I use a hex viewer in SublimeText to look at the ht.sqlite file I can see
   the old directory paths that were “/home2/davetess/website…” I need to change
   all instances of this since the new directory is “/home/davidtessier/website…”
 * When I try to edit the ht.SQLite file I get an error saying “invalid file format”.
   As the original post suggested, I made sure to try binary mode and that didn’t
   help. I also tried removing the period at the start of the file. It didn’t do
   anything either. I tried a few different tools that open SQLite files and none
   of them could do it. I need to update this database… please help.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-integration/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-integration/)

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 *  [PressPage Entertainment Inc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phkcorp2005/)
 * (@phkcorp2005)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-edit-database-file/#post-6397711)
 * You can download this utility to browse and edit SQLite database files,
 * [http://sqlitebrowser.org/](http://sqlitebrowser.org/)

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